apodosis
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin apodosis, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόδοσις (apódosis).
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Noun
apodosis (plural apodoses)
- (logic, grammar) The consequential clause in a conditional sentence.
- Coordinate term: protasis
- In "I will be coming if this weather holds up", "I will be coming" is the apodosis and "this weather holds up" is the protasis.
- 1943 Dornford Yates An Eye for a Tooth
- "If, after that, there is anything more to be done. . ."
"Yes?"
"You’d ----well better do it," said Forecast.
The meaning with which he invested this blunt apodosis was unmistakable. Even I, an eavesdropper, found it most sinister: and I was not surprised when, after a little silence, the other turned on his heel and led the way to the road.
- "If, after that, there is anything more to be done. . ."
- 1997 Angeliki Athanasiadou, René Dirven (eds) On Conditionals Again p. 309 by Hansjakob Seiler
- There is furthermore the claim that conditionals necessarily involve a causal relation from protasis to apodosis. This may hold for the "conjunctive" types signalling a natural consequence from protasis to apodosis, but becomes increasingly unlikely as we approach disjunctive structures of the type. "May I perish most miserably, if I do not love Xanthia." does not mean "May I perish most miserably, because I do not love Xanthia."
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